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- Probably first time I ever agree with Gerraint, Primoz will not win this vuelta. He would have had way more chances staying at Visma.
- THANK YOU for saving me the trouble of writing this myself. you didn’t miss a thing. like you, i’m troubled by the selective memory and hypocrisy that’s hard wired into cycling’s collective conscience.
- No doubt Pogacar is the GOAT. He achieved that even before this year's Tour. All comparisons between current sporting greats and those from decades ago give the same result. Sport has never been so competitive - that's why.
- How's pogi doing on the hour record?
- it is not fair to add just some dopers but exclude others…
- I make the same comments all the time. At similar career points, Tadej is the same or further ahead.
As for win totals, Merckx raced so many small races, crits, track races etc. Races that aren’t even here anymore.
Regardless, both are amazing.
- Competed against amateurs?
- If it is easier for Pog to break Merckx's records, then it was also easier for Merckx to break the records he broke when he was newer. In effect you are arguing that the original GOATS - you know, those riders who smoked and worked real jobs 100 years ago - are permanently the best ever. Their records may fall, but only because it's....easier.
Fair enough to say that early pioneers have a place in the sport that can never be replaced, but ludicrous to ignore that the cyclists of today, like athletes in almost every sport, are wildly stronger and more skilled than ever. There is a reason no one has done what Merckx did over the last 50 years, and its the same reason that easily (imo) qualifies Pog as the best rider of all time.
- If you find it too difficult or uncertain, you are welcome to sit out the GOAT debate. But it will go on just the same, and it cannot be reduced to mere numbers. It involves judgment and the subjective weighing of evidence, and I am quite comfortable comparing riders of different eras and forming an opinion.
- Merckx doped.
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